Showing posts with label Guinness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guinness. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 February 2025

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #25 – Keg Harp Tankard (1965)

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Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, To the Vodka and the Stag, To the Schmiddick and the Harpic, The bottle, draught and keg ... Delirium Tremen...
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Thursday, 16 January 2025

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #23 – Guinness 'Belgian' Tumbler (c. 1950)

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I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness, which I knew could be obtained without difficulty. Upon expressing my wish to...
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Thursday, 18 July 2024

A Shot of Beer History #1: The Real Baby Guinness ...

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D id you know that prior to the invention of the mini cocktail composed of Baileys floating over Tia Maria in a shot glass called a Baby Gui...
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Thursday, 18 April 2024

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #20 - The Harp Magazine (1963)

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A TELEPHONE shrills in the Brewery Fire Brigade night quarters at 84 James's Street. “There's been an accident.” “Where?” “In the b...
Friday, 17 November 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #14 – Guinness Bottle Opener (1970s?)

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‘My sealing-caps are so strong, so constructed, and so firmly applied to bottles that some form of lever or a cork-screw must be employed fo...
Thursday, 7 September 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #12 – Colonel Murphy’s Stout Beermat (1969)

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  G oodness! A rival ..! Top men at the giant Guinness brewing group must be anxiously watching a little experiment which is going on in Man...
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Friday, 23 June 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #10 – The Guinness Waterford Tankard (1960s)

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B ut when a cauliflower-wigged tankard of brown stout crowned the repast, his rapture knew no bounds. He pressed it with ecstasy to his lips...